Easy Compendious Inrtoduction by Prideaux Mathias (2 results)
More imagesPublished by by Leon Lichfield, printer to the University, and are to be sold by Richard Davis, Oxford 1682
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerThree parts in one, small 4to, pp. [8], 156, [2], 153, 156-157, 156-157, 160-391, 92, 375-381, 381, [32]; 57, [3]; title within ruled border, woodcut ornaments and initals, separately printed title pages for parts two and three of the Introduction, and for Synopsis of Counsels; bound without the half-title in contemporary full c…alf unadorned calf; joints cracked, but otherwise clean and sound. "Of political history in general, deduced from Nimrod" and "Of the history of successions, in states, countries, or families" each have a separate title page dated 1681; pagination and register are continuous. "A synopsis of councels", by John Prideaux, a translation of his "Consiliorum synopsis" (Wing P3421), has separate title page dated 1681; pagination and register are separate. This edition may also have been issued separately (Wing P3437). A summary guidebook, published posthumously, and likely edited by his father, John Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester, to the ecclesiastical and political history of the ancient world, up to and including the Stuarts and Tudors. There were six editions published from 1648 to 1682. Only the last included the Synopsis of Counsels. Wing P3445.
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Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPRIDEAUX, Mathias. An Easy and Compendious Inrtoduction [sic] for Reading All Sorts of Histories. Contrived in a More Facile Way then heretofore Hath Been Published; out of the Papers of Mathias Prideaux.To Which Is Added a Synopsis of Councels, by John Prideaux. Oxford: Leon Lichfield, 1682. 6th ed., Corrected and Augmented. [6…],156pp. [additional title-page:] Of Political History in General, Deduced from Nimrod According to the Four Monarchies, by a Continued Line of Succession to These Times., With a Touch in Every Period of Some Principal Concurrent Matters to Be Take Notice of. Together with Inquiries for Discourse. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1681. Pp. 153-381, [34]. [bound with:] PRIDEAUX, John. A Synopsis of Councels. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1681. 57,[3]pp. Contemporary full calf, ruled and decorated in blind, raised spine bands, red morocco spine label, gilt-chamfered edges. Spine darkened, label worn, lacks front free endpaper, some light scattered foxing and toning, a few small library stamps, else very good. ESTC R29253. Wing P3445. A summary guidebook, published posthumously, and likely edited by his father, John Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester, to the ecclesiastical and political history of the ancient world, up to and including the Stuarts and Tudors.
